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- ↑ "Performance Texts: Arise Evans, Grace Carrie, and the Interplay of Oral and Handwritten Traditions during the Print Revolution." ELH 76.1 (2009): 49–73.
- ↑ "Elizabeth Isham's Books of Remembrance and Forgetting." Modern Philology 109.1 (2011): 71–84.
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